I climbed out of bed, turned on the computer, and searched for a map of People's Celebration City.
Changshun Road, Yishan Road, the pet hospital, the library, the reading room...
I zoomed in on the map until I could examine the streets inch by inch. At last, I found a possible match: the Hontai District Reading Room in People's Celebration City, a small, two-story building tucked into a corner of the shopping street outside a residential neighborhood.
I searched for the reading room and found a few scraps of news about it. The city library's official website had a related introduction, complete with photos. A picture of one of the storerooms looked exactly like the one I'd seen in my dream.
I circled it on the map, then searched along the roads leading to the library for the streets I'd run through in my dream.
I didn't know whether too much time had passed or my memory had grown hazy, but the streets, shops, and photos of the area looked very different from what I'd seen in my dream. Maybe the shops had changed hands, or the area had undergone demolition and redevelopment.
An idea struck me. I went to the city government's official website and searched its publicly available documents.
If there had been municipal redevelopment, there would definitely be official documents. Sometimes there weren't even any news reports, but publicly released government documents like these were always available.
The government website's search system wasn't very user-friendly, and the connection was slow. It took me a while to find some old documents from more than ten years ago. Luckily, it was only ten years ago; data was already networked by then, and even paper documents had digital backups.
There had been a major road renovation project in Hontai District,